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FINANCE AND RESOURCES COMMITTEE
PURPOSE OF COMMITTEE
To approve and monitor
financial strategies, budgets and financial performance in light of
available funding, including the development and delivery of the
Council’s capital programme as well as monitoring the
development of the Local Development Plan. The Committee will also
consider:
·
strategies to support the city’s economic
growth;
·
additions to the Capital Programme; and
·
recommendations regarding the Council’s
property and estates portfolio.
The Committee monitors the
delivery of all services provided by the Corporate Services
Function (with the exception of those within the remit of the Staff
Governance Committee) and the Families and Communities Function
relating to Corporate Landlord (with the exception of those within
the remit of the Communities, Housing and Public Protection
Committee and the Education and Children’s Services
Committee). It scrutinises performance and approves options to
improve services within those Functions, set budgets to ensure best
value and delivery of the Council’s agreed
outcomes.
REMIT
OF COMMITTEE
1.
BUDGETS
The Committee will:
1.1
approve recommendations regarding the
Council’s resources including finance, staffing structures
and property; and monitor all Council budgets including all Useable
Reserves, and in particular:
1.1.1
scrutinise function budget monitoring reports and
make decisions to ensure that Council spending is delivered on
budget;
1.1.2
hold budget holders to account for the proper
control of the budget for which they are responsible;
1.1.3
approve changes to the budget including vire between
function budgets where this is in excess of the amount delegated to
officers in the Financial Regulations and Powers Delegated to
Officers;
1.1.4
consider and approve Outline and Full Business Cases
for projects added to the Capital Programme outwith the budget
process;
1.1.5
approve all non-capital programme procurement
activity, and capital programme procurement activity, including
Procurement Business Cases submitted in accordance with the
Procurement Regulations;
1.1.6
approve annual procurement workplans in respect of
the Capital Programme;
1.1.7
approve Procurement Business Cases in respect of
projects added to the Capital Programme outwith the budget process,
submitted in accordance with Procurement Regulations;
1.1.8
approve the allocation of additional funding to, or
removal of funding from, existing projects, both capital and
revenue;
1.1.9
approve the addition of new projects to the Capital
Programme outwith the budget process;
1.1.10approve the use of the
Council’s Useable Reserves;
1.1.11monitor the Code of
Guidance on Funding External Bodies and Following the Public Pound
and take such action as is required to ensure that the Council
meets its duties;
1.1.12receive formal credit
rating reassessment;
1.1.13approve financial
guarantees, including requests received from relevant Admitted
Bodies of the Pension Fund;
1.1.14consider numbers and
values of debts (including Council Tax, Non-Domestic Rates, Housing
Benefit overpayments and Rent) considered by the relevant Chief
Officer to be unrecoverable and approve write-offs of such debts
where the relevant Chief Officers do not have delegated power to do
so, all in terms of the Financial Regulations;
1.1.15scrutinise the progress
and delivery of capital projects against the approved business
cases;
1.1.16review progress in the
delivery of benefits of the Capital Programme, including through
the receipt and scrutiny of Post Project Evaluations (PPEs) and
Post Occupancy Evaluations (POEs); and
1.1.17request a report to allow
for the detailed consideration of any project which is of
particular concern or interest.
2.
SERVICE DELIVERY
2.1
The Committee will, for the Corporate Services
Function, the City Development and Regeneration Cluster, the
Capital Cluster and the Corporate Landlord Cluster:
2.1.1
oversee and make decisions relating to service
delivery;
2.1.2
approve options to improve/transform service
delivery
2.1.3
scrutinise operational performance and service
standards in line with the Performance Management Framework and
consider recommendations for improvements where
required;
2.1.4
receive the cluster risk registers relative to its
remit and scrutinise to ensure assurance that efficient controls
are in place;
2.1.5
approve all policies and strategies relative to its
remit; and
2.1.6
receive reports on inspections and peer reviews in
order to ensure best practice and note any actions arising from
those inspections and reviews.
2.1.7
approve annual procurement workplans, reflecting the
LOIP, the Population Needs Assessment, the Council’s
commissioning intentions, the Council’s service standards,
the views of customers and citizens, and the best evidence of
effective interventions to ensure a preventative focus on demand
reduction.
2.1.8
receive an annual procurement performance report to
enable scrutiny of performance.
2.2
In undertaking the aspects at 2.1, the Committee
will ensure that it is acting within the budget set by the Council
and overseen by this Committee and in accordance with best value
and supporting delivery of the Council’s agreed outcomes,
commissioning intentions, service specifications and service
standards.
3.
CITY DEVELOPMENT AND REGENERATION AND STRATEGIC
PLACE PLANNING
The
Committee will:
3.1
approve reports to support the annual re-assessment
of the Council’s credit rating;
3.2
approve the Council’s actions for city growth
and place planning except in relation to major infrastructural
planning;
3.3
oversee and approve the preparation of the Local
Development Plan, subject to final approval thereon being given by
Council; and
3.4
approve key actions required by the Council to
facilitate the delivery of strategies (including partnership
strategies) and the Inward Investment Plan to support city growth
and place planning.
4.
PROPERTY AND ESTATES
The Committee will:
4.1
approve recommendations regarding the
Council’s assets, property and estates;
4.2
hear and determine requests for review under s86(10)
of the Community Empowerment (Scotland) Act 2015 of decisions taken
in respect of community asset transfer requests;
4.3
approve the procedure for the Community Asset
Transfer Review Sub-Committee; and
4.4
approve the acquisition and disposal of land and
property.
EXECUTIVE LEAD: EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF CORPORATE
SERVICES
Please refer also, as applicable and appropriate, to the
“General Delegations to Committees” and the
“Exclusions from Delegations to Committees”.
